1st Quarter Reflection 2016

     Some things you learn in the current year may be similar to what you actually learned from the last year. Mrs. Larson had tuaght us about the TIQA format. Topic sentence, introducing a quote, stating the quote, and analyzing it. This strategy is what I learned from Mr. Richards, my past social studies teacher. He told us about a strategy similar to TIQA but excluded the topic sentence. The "123" strategy helped me understand Mrs. Larson's.

     To aid in using TIQA, she gave us a printed PowerPoint presentation. This had the crash course on TIQA from making the topic sentence to using supporting details. I want to thank Mrs. Larson for giving us the tutorial paper and for presenting other strategies. The given strategies may actually help us later in life. Such may include simply writing down vocabulary words on a notebook.

     Actually writing something can help you learn better than mindlessly typing it. Mrs. Larson started giving us vocab. words on Friday. Not only do we have to input those and our prefixes onto Quizlet, but we also have to write them down in our notebooks. This is helpful because writing takes time. On an electronic, a letter is typed at the push of a button. On paper, you take time to write and therefore know what you are writing about. With Quizlet it's type first, study later. 

     I see the first quarter of this school year as an introduction. We learned strategies that we'll use not only in the progressing school year but later in life. These past few months have been showing us the possible assignments to come and has given us these strategies. Overall, we know what to do for whatever comes during the next few quarters.